History

This is real footage of Claude Monet painting beside his famous water lily pond in Giverny https://t.co/nScavg6ar2

— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) October 7, 2026

 

An Insight

The most jacked I’ve ever been was when I trained at this gym full of guys on steroids. I’ve been told that some of them were bikers. From looking at them, not particularly hard to believe. At the time, I estimated that on any given day, one out of four guys was on gear. I had a few friends openly on it, so I knew what to look for: traps and shoulders blowing up suddenly, skin texture, acne, etc. Despite being natural, I got good gains because everyone trained hard. If you trained like a wuss, you felt out of place. Overcoming resistance was the path of least resistance. From this experience, I implicitly understood that the most important part of any human system was the people in it. I’ve trained at better-equipped gyms, but I’ve never gotten as jacked as I did training there. This gym had a culture of hard work because the people in it were hard. There’s individual-level advice everywhere about what you should do to get ahead in life, but the best advice I can give you is collective-level: work among people whose goals you share, people who will reward you for your commitment and shame you for your lack thereof

— William Meijer (@williameijer) October 6, 2026

 

I see wonderful things

Shiny new shoes 🦆🐾💙 https://t.co/mYSR95IX7L

— Cosmic Gaia (@CosmicGaiaX) October 6, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Facilities did an office inspection and found the mini-fridge under my desk. “Personal appliances are prohibited.” They put a red removal sticker on it. I removed the sticker. Put on an IT asset tag. Ran an Ethernet cable from the back of the fridge into the wall. Updated inventory: DEVICE: SRV-THERMAL-04 TYPE: Auxiliary cooling appliance OWNER: Infrastructure CRITICALITY: High Facilities came back. Saw the asset tag. Saw the network cable. Wouldn’t touch it. Three months later Security found SRV-THERMAL-04 during an audit. They asked what business service it supports. I opened the fridge. Six Diet Cokes. Two Red Bulls. String cheese. I told them it maintains temperature-sensitive IT assets. Security asked why it has never transmitted a single packet. “Air-gapped.” They nodded. The fridge passed the audit. It is now officially classified as critical infrastructure.

— Derek Devicemanager (@IT_unhinged) October 6, 2026

 

Data Talks

The median age for first marriage in 1975 was 24 for a man and 21 for a woman. Today it is 31 and 28, respectively. Roughly 70% of adults at the time were married. Today, only about half are. One reason for both changes is the prevalence of non-marital cohabitation. In the 1960s, the typical husband and wife met, married, and moved in together within three years. Sharing a home happened after marriage because living together with an unmarried partner was not a widespread social phenomenon. But couples today are on a very different relationship timeline, argues @DelanoSquires

— The Institute for Family Studies (@FamStudies) October 6, 2026

 

Companions of the Big Easy, 2015 by Steve Hanks

Companions of the Big Easy, 2015 by Steve Hanks (America, 1949-2015)

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History

In 1606, Caravaggio killed a man in Rome and went on the run to Naples. His commission called for 7 separate canvases—one for each act of mercy. Caravaggio refused. He decided to cram all 7 into a single frame. The challenge? How to do it without making it look like a mess. His solution: The Seven Works of Mercy, using real beggars and prostitutes as models. 1️⃣ Feed the hungry: A woman secretly breastfeeds her starving father through prison bars 2️⃣Visit the imprisoned: Same scene. 3️⃣ Bury the dead: A priest guides a corpse-carrying party. 4️⃣ Give drink to the thirsty: Samson chugs water straight out of a donkey’s jawbone. 5️⃣ Clothe the naked: St. Martin slashes his cloak in half for a cripple on the floor. 6️⃣ Shelter the homeless: An innkeeper offers a room to a pilgrim with a seashell on his hat. 7️⃣ Comfort the sick: St. Martin’s scene doubles up for a crippled man on the ground. Above it all? Angels dropping out of nowhere like stuntmen. It still hangs on that exact altar in Naples.

— Art Gallery (@X_ArtGallery) October 7, 2026

 

An Insight

Why men -- especially conservative men -- won't go to therapy: The weird thing about the American Psychological Association (APA) is that every objective observer has known that it's been ideologically captured by the Left since the 1970s. That's the main reason why the Association for Psychological Science split off back in 1988, to form a more-scientific, less-politicized version of APA. Yet, here we are, 40 years later -- with APA still the main accrediting body that gives its seal of approval to PhD programs that train the vast majority of licensed clinical psychologists in America. APA sets the agenda. It determines what gets covered in graduate courses. It runs the most influential journals and conferences. It sets the whole political and ideological tone for psychological research. For decades, it has pushed political correctness, 'affirmative action', wokeness, DEI, and Leftist political causes. APA also ignores, censors, and/or demonizes the psychological research areas that are politically incorrect, but that replicate well (e.g. intelligence research, behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, sex differences). There are alternatives. For example, the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS) focuses more on the real science -- evidence-based treatments and interventions -- rather than on the Leftist activism of APA. But, for the moment, the APA's ideological agenda still dominates American clinical psychology. This partly explains the feedback loop between clinical psychology becoming so feminized (with women getting about 80% of clinical psychology PhDs), and clinical psychology becoming so radical-Leftist in its politics. And it explains why it's pretty difficult to find licensed clinical psychologists who are actually sympathetic to men, conservatives, and/or Christians. This is one big reason why men won't go to therapy -- they don't want to deal with a (probably female, probably liberal) therapist who has been indoctrinated into wokeness for 5-6 years throughout her graduate training.

— Geoffrey Miller (@gmiller) October 6, 2026

 

Offbeat Humor

Women kept sending death threats and hate mail to the wrong Winston Lee so he emailed their employers with copies of their messages lol What a stud https://t.co/WkEhAhlODx

— Kangmin Lee | 이강민 (@kangminlee) October 6, 2026

 

Data Talks

When Obama lost the 2014 midterms, he blamed it on the country's alleged racism... Race relations cratered by 21 points in just two years...and theyve never recovered. Vanity over everything. https://t.co/gNmAI6YFtO

— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) October 5, 2026